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Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC
Published 2014-05-01“…Between December 2011 and May 2012, the public television channel (RTVC) in theCanary Islands (Spain) aired, in prime time, the first locally produced situation comedy.Titled La Revoltosa (henceforth LR), it was the most ambitious production in thechannel’s more than 14 years of existence. …”
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Investigating Verbal Humor in Selected Mr. Iglesias Sitcom Shows Episodes
Published 2022-11-01“…The results showed that this situation comedy has 58 expressions that employed linguistic humor. …”
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Comedy and Plague in the Time of Covid: The BBC's Upstart Crow: Lockdown Christmas 1603
Published 2022-12-01“…The BBC’s Upstart Crow, created and scripted by Ben Elton, is a British situation comedy loosely based on the life and career of the early modern dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616). …”
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Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC
Published 2014-05-01“…Between December 2011 and May 2012, the public television channel (RTVC) in theCanary Islands (Spain) aired, in prime time, the first locally produced situation comedy.Titled La Revoltosa (henceforth LR), it was the most ambitious production in thechannel’s more than 14 years of existence. …”
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Communicative Failures Presented in American Comedy Series Analysed from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
Published 2022-07-01“…Inferential analysis handles American cinema discourse represented by the genre of a situation comedy that models live communication, supplying instances of communicative failures to subject to analysis. …”
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Everybody Loves Guido: Italian Characters on Modern U.S. Sitcoms
Published 2015-06-01“…Comic characters, for example, create likability through humor, and this factor is important in evaluating the degree to which ethnic characters on sitcoms may reflect reality for viewers, particularly for young people. Situation comedy is a mass genre and a consistent staple of broadcasting over the world. …”
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Strategies Applied in the Use of Humorous Phatic Utterances
Published 2019-12-01“…Therefore, this research was conducted to describe phatic utterances conveyed by the characters of a widely known situation comedy (sitcom) Friends and also to find out the politeness strategies applied when uttering the phatic utterances. …”
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los medios de comunicación y la enseñanza de valores interculturales: Una aproximación didáctica a los valores reflejados en los <i>sitcoms</i>
Published 2015-03-01“…Bearing all this in mind, we propose a pedagogical approach to carry out a cultural awareness exercise that enable the students understand the values of the American society as portrayed in the situation comedy Friends.…”
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Dial M for Markham, McNutley and the Milland Show: Remaking and Reimagining Ray Milland’s Established Cinematic Image for 1950s Television
Published 2022-04-01“…After twenty-one years at Paramount, and with his ‘stardom years’ behind him, Milland became an independent agent and began appearing regularly on television, firstly starring in all 77 episodes of the situation comedy Meet Mr McNutley, a role he concurrently portrayed on radio. …”
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FIX IT BLACK JESUS: The Iconography of Christ in <i>Good Times</i>
Published 2019-06-01“…<i>Good Times</i> is primarily remembered for the situation comedy that it became, rather than how the series began. …”
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ANALISIS WACANA PERCAKAPAN DALAM KOMEDI SITUASI THE IT CROWD SERI 1
Published 2013“…This research describes the analysis of conversation in the English conversation transcription of the situational comedy The IT Crowd season 1. The researcher examines four problems, 1) the discourse of dialogue in the conversation transcription of the situational comedy The IT Crowd season 1, 2) the conversation organizations in the conversation transcription of the situational comedy The IT Crowd season 1, 3) the contexts in the conversation transcription of the situational comedy The IT Crowd season 1, 4) the breaking of cooperative principle in the situational comedy The IT Crowd season 1. …”
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Seriality and persuasion
Published 2016-06-01“…As "case studies" we use soap operas, telenovelas, situation comedies of great international relevance, but still little investigated in Italy. …”
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Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty?
Published 2012-11-01“…At the beginning of the 21st century, the directors, actors, and screenwriters tend however to leave the “situational comedy” genre behind for more flexible series formats. …”
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Reflecting the Changing Face of American Society: How 1970’s Sitcoms and Spin-Offs Helped Redefine American Identity
Published 2013-12-01“…When looking back at the popular American situation comedies of the 1970’s, one notices a vast network of programs aimed at framing social discourse and at helping America come to term with its own, changing image. …”
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Translating humour in audiovisual media
Published 2016-01-01“…The corpus consists of humorous scenes collected from two popular American situational comedies, namely Friends (1994) and The Big Bang Theory (2007). …”
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‘Send in the (gay) clowns’: Will & Grace and Modern Family as ‘sensibly queer’
Published 2013-12-01“…This article provides a queer theoretical critique of two situation comedies, Will & Grace (Kohan & Mutchnick 1998) and Modern Family (Levitan & Lloyd 2009a), and their representation of gay men. …”
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Enlightened Racism and The Cosby Show
Published 2014-03-01“…My analysis of The Cosby Show illustrates the problems within the community in determining what constitutes as quality programming for black situation comedies.…”
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‘Send in the (gay) clowns’: Will & Grace and Modern Family as ‘sensibly queer’
Published 2013-12-01“…This article provides a queer theoretical critique of two situation comedies, Will & Grace (Kohan & Mutchnick 1998) and Modern Family (Levitan & Lloyd 2009a), and their representation of gay men. …”
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Translating humour in audiovisual media
Published 2016-01-01“…The corpus consists of humorous scenes collected from two popular American situational comedies, namely Friends (1994) and The Big Bang Theory (2007). …”
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A pragmatic analysis of humour strategies and functions in 'Jenifa's Diary' and 'Professor JohnBull'
Published 2021-12-01“…There is a dearth of scholarly enquiries on humour in situation comedies (sitcoms). This paper investigates humour in the interactions of characters in Jenifa’s Diary and Professor JohnBull, with a view to accounting for the manifestations of humour, the humour strategies deployed and the functions that the humorous utterances serve in the sitcoms. …”
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